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LA Times’s Journalistic Butt">Ken at Popehat Kicks the LA Times’s Journalistic Butt

I’m a great believer in the need for a strong inde­pen­dent press, and I worry about what we’re going to do for solid inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism once all of the news­pa­pers have gone the way of the tele­graph, but the jour­nal­ists aren’t doing them­selves or us any favors by pub­lish­ing ill-researched igno­rant scare pieces that can be author­i­ta­tively and con­clu­sively debunked by in two days by some part-time blogger.

The Los Ange­les Times Gets It Badly Wrong On A PATRIOT Act Story.

(If you don’t already have Pope­hat on your daily read list, add it now.)

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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.

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